Happy 50th Birthday Hula Hoop!

Did you know it cost $1.98 the first year. when 100 million of them were sold? Or, that it was banned in the Soviet Union as a symbol of the "emptiness" of western culture?

I cropped this shot from an earlier posted photo of mine and treated it a bit for the birthday.....

Richard Knerr and Arthur Melin invented it. Both are dead now, with Knerr passing earlier this year. Wham-O still manufactures it and sells it, although, as you might guess, sales are down for this "Great American Fad"!